Google Plus Business Page Cover Photo Size

April 11, 2012

Update 03/07/13: Google announced new cover photo sizes and profile enhancements for Google+. The new cover photo size is 2120 × 1192 pixels. We wrote a follow-up post with inspiration, tips, and another template that you can see here.

Today, Google+ got a new look, including features like interactive navigation and profiles that look similar to Facebook’s Timeline layout that officially launched last month.

Google says improvements will be rolled out “over the next few days,” so don’t fret if you haven’t seen the change yet. The Cypress North Google+ page hasn’t seen the upgrade, but one of our other clients has, so we decided to spruce up Easy Legal Billing’s Google+ page and write up a quick post about sizing for your cover photos.

It appears that the displayable area for the cover photo on Google+ is 940 x 180 pixels. You can upload larger images as long as they are a minimum of 940 pixels wide. The image tool will allow you to crop to the correct dimensions once your image is uploaded.

If you don’t have the ability to create a full-width cover photo, you can also use the alternative template offered that displays five images in a “scrapbook” format, like Coldplay does here:

If you decide to design your own custom cover photo with marketing messages, be sure to leave some left margin space so your text isn’t too close to the left edge. In addition, you’ll need to make sure you don’t place any important info on the right side as your profile image will block whatever is underneath. We believe the profile photo is about 252 x 252 pixels.

Other features of the new redesign include bigger photos and video, a discovery section where users can view current trends and hot topics on Google+ as well as an interactive navigation and hangouts page. Read more about these improvements here.

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[…] The consensus around the web is that the new Google+ cover photo size is massive. The new size is 2120 x 1129 pixels – which gives businesses and brands a lot more space to work with compared to the old version. […]

I don’t understand this new Google+ size at all. It’s massive. What’s going on? How exactly should one design in such a way to control the viewer’s/visitor’s experience? Is there a new template to use?

[…] Yesterday Twitter launched a new look out across all user profiles that allowed users to generate a bolder, more vivid look. The new Twitter profiles feature one very large image (reminiscent to Facebook Timeline and Google+ page covers.) […]

Tiffany, great presentation of how to optimize photos for your Google+ pages. I am creating a page on how to get the most out of Google+ in our new social media and SEO section and I have referenced this page for people. Many thanks, Richard

@arismawan that is a great app you got going. Just created a cover. Very easy and looks amazing for just a short time. Thanks for the share. And Tiffany thanks for the article helped me get exactly what I was looking for. Cheers

It is also important to choose a profile image that will not loose too much clarity when it is automatically scaled down and displayed to the left of your status updates. I guess there is a trade off between the larger profile image displayed on the right of the cover photo and the smaller resized version displayed with your updates. In my opinion the smaller version next to status updates gets much more visibility so should not be overlooked.